THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XX 



CHICAGO, APRIL, 1905. 



No. 6 



THE IRRIGATION AGE 



With which is Merged 



MODERN IRRIGATION 

 THE IRRIGATION ERA 

 ARID AMERICA 



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It may interest advertisers to know that The Irrigation Age is the 

 only publication in the world having an actual paid in advance 

 circulation among individual irrigators and large irrigation corpo- 

 rations. It is read regularly by all interested in this subject and has 

 readers in all parts of the world. The Irrigation Age is 20 years 

 old and is the pioneer publication of its class in the world. 



Courts are not competent, as a rule, to 

 Are regulate the use of water by defining the 



Courts basic principles upon which irrigation law 



Competent ? should be founded. Irrigation is a science ; 

 the principles upon which good irrigation 

 law should be built are defined by facts 

 not technicalities of law or mistakes of other courts. 

 If the courts have the power to alter such principles, 

 they should have the power to change the laws which 

 govern the flow of water, since the latter in a large 

 measure affects the applicability of the former. The 

 flow of water is based fundamentally on the laws of 

 falling bodies and the courts would in many cases find 

 it necessary to modify these. After having disarranged 

 so much scientific law it would be a simple matter to 

 regulate the revolutions of the earth and appeal for 

 authority to extend jurisdiction beyond. The question 

 is where shall the laws of man and of nature com- 

 promise. All compromises thus far made have been in 

 favor of those promulgated by man and naturally to 

 the detriment of men. 



THE AOE wishes to thank those who have 

 Thanks. furnished information relating to the "In- 

 fluences in the National Irrigation Pro- 

 gram," which made possible the preparation of the paper 

 dealing with, this most important subject. Former 

 members of the National Irrigation Association have 

 provided most of the valuable material put at our dis- 

 posal. State officers, irrigation engineers, irrigation 

 organizations and the papers of the West have all been 

 of service. We are glad to see that with the exception 

 of a few of these papers Mr. Maxwell's propaganda has 



no support from this source at the present time. We 

 have received copies of resolutions from a number of 

 State legislatures which condemn Mr. Maxwell's theories 

 openly or by implication. We wish to thank corre- 

 spondents of western papers at Washington who have 

 thrown light on the cooperation Mr. Maxwell has been 

 able to secure there. 



It was our original intention to simply make public 

 the character of the campaign conducted by the Na- 

 tional Irrigation Association, but much has developed 

 since THE AGE first became interested in the matter and 

 it is believed that a plain statement of the truth as to 

 the character of the support which the organization 

 has been able to draft can do nothing but good. We 

 wish to say that our support goes to any officer of 

 State or nation who indicates by public or private 

 speech or published reports that he considers first the 

 interests of the irrigator rather than those of the corpo- 

 ration. More might be said relative to Mr. Maxwell's 

 record, but we feel that enough has been published to 

 convince those open to conviction that he does not merit 

 the encouragement he has received from Government 

 officials in Washington. 



It is our impression that President Roose- 

 velt is inclined to put business men in 

 Business charge of such work as the Panama Canal 

 Men in and the building of the great irrigation 



Charge. reservoirs and projects throughout the 

 West. He has, we are told, offered the 

 position of chief of the Panama Canal to Mr. T. P. 

 Shonts. formerly president of the Clover Leaf Eoute, 

 and we understand 'that he is looking around for a 



